"Robots Pretending to be Kids are Way Creepier than Kids Pretending to be Robots"

We’re not sure which is scarier, getting lost in the woods or being rescued by a swarm of mini robotic grasshoppers. But it’s search-and-rescue situations that a Swiss robotics lab had in mind when they built the world’s smallest hopping robot.

Watching Where did this talent-providing tool come from? How did it become so mainstream? Why is T-Pain the first artist to make a career out of this vocal game genie? Will pop acts please stop using it (cough Kanye cough)?

Forty-six speakers are arrayed in a concert hall similar to the placement of instruments in a real orchestra and each speaker "plays" a discrete track. Four more fill in human voices and the rest add extra audio to improve the sonic facade. It's really creepy, a totally still room brought to life with the music of ghosts.

Toyota shows off a violin playing robot and a two-wheeled human transporter -- the latest products of its robots program that seeks to develop a practical human assistance robot by the early part of the 2010s.

Dot to dot London is my next “Bringing dots to life” piece after Dot to dot Robot - this time I am doing something much larger and more ambitious for a large corporate print for Red Chilli Structured Finance - a panoramic image of London (6000 x 2000 pixels resolution).

Perhaps sensing an over saturation in the market for useful robotics, researchers from Chonnam National University have developed a robotic plant. Much like traditional low cost, low maintenance, natural, abundant plants the robot plant can produce oxygen, emits aromas (hopefully pleasant ones), and does some sort of humidifying thing.

At just over 16cm Tomy's iSobot found its place in the record books as the smallest bipedal bot this year, but the boffins have gone for another entry in next years annual with a 3.5cm creation that can walk, steer...

From the moment director Shankar decided that he will work once again with the South Indian super star Rajinikanth, this project has been making news. Well there was also a controversy suggesting that Ash was signed and rumors emanating that she has quit the film.

2nd in a series of films created in the mysterious superterranean lair of the Robotmakers. Original music and film. Questions left unanswered.